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Coinbase and Robinhood Are Converging, but Who Wins the Onchain Fintech War? - Ep. 864
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:25:39
Publish Date: 2025-07-08 16:00:00
Description:

The race to bring users onchain is heating up, but the competitors couldn’t be more different.

Coinbase, a crypto-native giant with deep infrastructure and institutional partnerships, is going head-to-head with Robinhood, a retail-focused fintech now making aggressive moves into tokenized assets and blockchain rails.

Their visions overlap (tokenized stocks, perpetuals, custom chains) but the strategies, philosophies, and user bases differ sharply.

In this episode, Laura speaks with Diogenes Casares (Klyra Protocol) and Ryan Yi (ex-Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund) to unpack:

  • How these two companies will compete

  • What levers they have to increase their profits

  • How Base became a liquidity black hole for Ethereum

  • Why Coinbase may have already won the “flows” game

  • And how stablecoins, social, and tokenization could decide the winner

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  • Diogenes Casares, founder of Klyra Protocol and advisor at Patagon Management

  • Ryan Yi, ex Coinbase, Coinbase Ventures, and CoinFund


Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

4:17 What really separates Coinbase and Robinhood’s strategies

️ 6:43 How Robinhood’s new chain should try to compete with Base

14:49 Why the competition between Robinhood and Coinbase is heating up fast in the U.S.
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